Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
info(at)avldigital.remove-this.de
Deutsch English
Narrow Search
Search narrowed by
Last searches

Results for *

Displaying results 1 to 25 of 3411.

  1. The heart of the country
    Author: Weldon, Fay
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  Hutchinson, London u.a.

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Link to union catalogue:
    Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (BVB)
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 009167090X
    RVK Categories: HN 9023
    Subjects: Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts; Mother and child; Runaway husbands
    Scope: 199 S.
  2. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives
    Author: Brontë, Emily
    Published: [1992]; © 1992
    Publisher:  Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, Boston

    Location:
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
    Signature:
    95 8 51869
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    92 A 4131
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
    Signature:
    A 8.8. Bro
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    Signature:
    LA-I32-13731
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Location:
    Anglistisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
    Signature:
    N BRO III 123
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Signature:
    19 | BRO | Wut
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Universitätsbibliothek
    Signature:
    95.080729
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
    Signature:
    ELA B 8691 4574-594 8
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universität Stuttgart, Bibliothek der Institute für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
    Signature:
    VEN6--BRO(2)2/4
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

    Location:
    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
    Signature:
    43/2233
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Peterson, Linda H. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 033357558X; 0312035470; 031206523X
    Other identifier:
    90071625
    RVK Categories: HL 2083 ; HL 2085
    Series: Case studies in contemporary criticism
    Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Rejection (Psychology); Rural families; Foundlings; Psychological fiction; Domestic fiction; Love stories; English fiction
    Other subjects: Bronte͏̈, Emily
    Scope: xii, 467 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturangaben
  3. <<The>> spill
    Author: Neeme, Imbi
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, [Australia]

    "In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car - but not in quite the same... more

     

    "In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car - but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina's death, almost four decades later, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of sabotaging her own happiness, seems finally content but still can't get through to her sister. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she's worked so hard to build for herself. The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years - moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together."_-Provided by publisher

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781760893767; 1760893765
    Subjects: Traffic accidents; Life change events; Sisters; Families; Australian fiction; Families; Life change events; Traffic accidents; Domestic fiction; Fiction; Domestic fiction
    Scope: 332 Seiten, 24 cm
  4. <<The>> four humors
    a novel
    Author: Seçkin, Mina
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Catapult, New York

    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781646220465; 1646220463
    RVK Categories: HV 98000
    Subjects: Turkish Americans; Medicine, Ancient; Families; Turkish Americans
    Scope: 357 Seiten, 22 cm
  5. Oh William!
    a novel
    Author: Strout, Elizabeth
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Viking, [S.l.] ; Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London]

    Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and long-time,... more

     

    Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and long-time, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recounting their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage and the lives they built with other people, Strout paints a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a decades-long partnership

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780241508176; 0241508177
    Series: Amgash ; [3]
    Subjects: Authors; Family secrets; Families; Authors; Families; Family secrets; Domestic fiction; Fiction; Domestic fiction
    Scope: 240 pages, 21 cm
  6. The wedding
    Author: West, Dorothy
    Published: 1996, ©1995
    Publisher:  Anchor Books, New York

    In the 1950s, a girl from the black bourgeoisie in Martha's Vineyard announces her engagement to a white musician. The novel follows the impact this has on her family and the community around them. By the author of The Living Is Easy more

     

    In the 1950s, a girl from the black bourgeoisie in Martha's Vineyard announces her engagement to a white musician. The novel follows the impact this has on her family and the community around them. By the author of The Living Is Easy

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0385471440; 9780385471442
    Edition: 1st Anchor books ed
    Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Domestic fiction; Domestic fiction; Fiction
    Scope: 240 pages, 21 cm
    Notes:

    "Originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1995."
  7. Life without children
    stories
    Author: Doyle, Roddy
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Viking, New York

    Box Sets -- The Curfew -- Life Without Children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The Charger -- The Funeral -- Worms -- The Five Lamps. "A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker... more

     

    Box Sets -- The Curfew -- Life Without Children -- Gone -- Nurse -- Masks -- The Charger -- The Funeral -- Worms -- The Five Lamps. "A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet"--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780593300565
    Subjects: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Families; Domestic fiction; Short stories
    Scope: pages cm
    Notes:

    "First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd, London, in 2021."
  8. Ghost forest
    a novel
    Author: Fung, Pik-Shuen
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  One World, New York

    "In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The... more

     

    "In Ghost Forest, the unnamed narrator is the eldest of two daughters who grew up in Vancouver with her mother, away from her father in China, who's now sick. She's twenty-four and realizing she has never told her father that she loves him. The stories and experiences that unfold through his subsequent death and memorialization are lessons and curiosities of intimacy and affection. They are real, raw, and poignant meditations on how life and love can sometimes best be discovered in dying. This is a story of an underrepresented Chinese identity, a transnational identity, one that is neither rootless nor completely uprooted. Told in space and monologue, traveling through present and past, Ghost Forest recounts memories and performs traditions with a weight and tenderness that only family can inspire"--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780593230961
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Chinese; Immigrant families
    Scope: 257 pages cm
  9. Something unbelievable
    a novel
    Author: Kuznetsova, Maria
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Random House, New York

    "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a... more

     

    "Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraine, tired of everything in life, really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but that's because she has just had a baby, and she's struggling to balance her roles as a new mother, a wife, an actress (or she used to be, anyway), and a host to her husband's greasy-haired, useless best friend, Stas, who has been staying with them in Brooklyn. When Natasha asks Larissa to tell the story of her family's Soviet wartime escape from the Nazis in Kiev, Larissa reluctantly agrees. Perhaps Natasha is just looking for distraction from her own life, but Larissa is desperate to make her happy, even though the story hurts to tell. But as she recounts the three-year period when she fled with her difficult sister, their parents, and grandmother to an abandoned army village in the Ural Mountains, and the series of unfortunate events that occurred there, such as near starvation, a cholera outbreak, a tragic suicide, and a complex love triangle with two brothers from a privileged family--neither Larissa nor Natasha can anticipate how loudly these lessons of the past will echo in their present moments. Navigating between Larissa and Natasha's perspectives, then and now, Something Unbelievable explores with piercing wit and tender feeling just how much our circumstances shape our lives and what we pass along to the younger generations, willingly or not"--

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780525511908
    Edition: First edition
    Scope: xii, 272 Seiten
  10. The needle's eye
    a novel
    Author: Drabble, Margaret
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    72 A 1825
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Signature:
    20 | DRA | Nee
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0297993992
    Subjects: Custody of children; Separated people; Single mothers; Slums; Domestic fiction; Legal stories
    Scope: [6], 369 p, 23 cm
  11. Practising Femininity
    Domestic Realism and the Performance of Gender in Early Canadian Fiction
    Author: Dean, Misao
    Published: [2016]; © 1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Location:
    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Link to union catalogue:
    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442678712
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Canadian fiction; Domestic fiction; Femininity in literature; Women and literature; Geschlechterrolle; Frauenprosa; Englisch
    Scope: 1 online resource
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)

    :
  12. Creole Crossings
    Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery
    Author: Berman, Carolyn Vellenga
    Published: [2018]; © 2005
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use... more

    Location:
    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Link to union catalogue:
    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)

     

    The character of the Creole woman-the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier-is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "brought up domestically," and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life. Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century's writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the "domestic fiction" of Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Jacobs, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501726835
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Antislavery movements in literature; Creoles in literature; Domestic fiction; Slavery in literature; Sklaverei <Motiv>; Englisch; Kreolenbild; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
  13. The Lost Journals of Sylvia Plath
    A Novel
    Author: Knutsen, Kimberly
    Published: [2021]; © 2015
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Location:
    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Link to union catalogue:
    Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781501757815
    Other identifier:
    Series: Switchgrass Books
    Subjects: Fiction & Short Stories; Womens Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; College teachers; Domestic fiction
    Scope: 1 online resource (384 pages)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Feb 2021)
  14. Lightning song
    Author: Nordan, Lewis
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    A novel on an oddball Southern family living on a llama farm. The hero is Leroy Dearman, 12, whose life changes with the arrival of an uncle, a city slicker who reads porno magazines and seduces Leroy's mother. That gives Leroy ideas regarding a... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    A novel on an oddball Southern family living on a llama farm. The hero is Leroy Dearman, 12, whose life changes with the arrival of an uncle, a city slicker who reads porno magazines and seduces Leroy's mother. That gives Leroy ideas regarding a comely majorette. By the author of Sharpshooter Blues

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565127641; 9781565127647
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Families; Domestic fiction
    Scope: Online-Ressource (273 pages)
    Notes:

    Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

    ""Cover""; ""Also by Lewis Nordan""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""15""; ""16""; ""17""; ""18""; ""19""; ""20""; ""21""; ""22""; ""23""; ""About the Author""

    Electronic reproduction
  15. The unthinkable thoughts of Jacob Green
    a novel
    Author: Braff, Joshua
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming host, everyone's best friend, and amateur emcee--to introduce him to the crowd. Housewarming... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    Jacob Green, a Jewish kid from suburban New Jersey, sits on the stairs during his family's housewarming party, waiting for his father, Abram--charming host, everyone's best friend, and amateur emcee--to introduce him to the crowd. Housewarming parties, Annie Hall parties, and bar mitzvah parties punctuate Jacob's childhood and require command performances by all the Green family members. But when the confetti settles and the drapes are drawn, the affable Abram Green becomes an egotistical tyrant whose emotional rages rupture the lives of his family. Jacob doesn't mean to disappoint his father, but he can't help thinking the most unthinkable (and very funny) thoughts about public-school humiliation, Hebrew-school disinclination, and in-home sex education (with the live-in nanny!). If only his mother hadn't started college at thirty-six (and fallen for her psychology professor). If only he were more like his rebellious older brother (suspended from Hebrew school for drawing the rabbi in a threesome with a lobster and a pig). If only Jacob could confront his overbearing father and tell him he doesn't want to sing in synagogue, attend est classes, write the perfect thank-you note, or even live in the same house with Abram Green. But, of course, he can't. That would be unthinkable. This self-assured, comic, yet piercing first novel deftly captures the struggle of an imperfect boy trying to become a suitable son

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565128931; 9781565128934
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Teenage boys; Brothers; Boys; Suburban life; Jewish families; Fathers and sons
    Scope: Online-Ressource (259 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    ""The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Housewarming""; ""I: 1977 Ten Years Old""; ""Tzitzit""; ""Son of Abraham""; ""Going Public""; ""The Sabbath""; ""II: 1980 Thirteen Years Old""; ""Meg""; ""Thank You""; ""Shattered""; ""Uneven""; ""Lucky""; ""Show Business""; ""Curtain""; ""Over""; ""III: 1983 Fifteen Years Old""; ""The Deep End""; ""Erhard�s Prayer""; ""Holy High""; ""Rabbi Nudity""; ""Saturday""
  16. A miracle of catfish
    a novel in progress
    Author: Brown, Larry
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    "Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi ... is the story of one year in the lives of four men and one little boy. ... There is Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret and a newly dug pond he is stocking with catfish. Tommy... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    "Set in the low hills just outside Oxford, Mississippi ... is the story of one year in the lives of four men and one little boy. ... There is Cortez Sharp, a farmer with a terrible secret and a newly dug pond he is stocking with catfish. Tommy Bright, from Arkansas, has a fish-stocking business he's all but gambled away. Cleve, a black neighbor down the road, has a daughter who's taken up with a man so unworthy he doesn't deserve to live. Little Jimmy, whose daddy gave him a go-kart, has the bad luck to have been born to that daddy, a man beyond redemption. And then there's Ursula, the mother of all catfish, who has her own secret life near the bottom of Cortez's pond."--Publisher's description

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565126963; 9781565126961
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Fatherhood
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xv, 455 p), map
    Notes:

    "A Shannon Ravenel Book

    ""A MIRACLE OF CATFISH""; ""EDITOR�S NOTE""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""15""; ""16""; ""17""; ""18""; ""19""; ""20""; ""21""; ""22""; ""23""; ""24""; ""25""; ""26""; ""27""; ""28""; ""29""; ""30""; ""31""; ""32""; ""33""; ""34""; ""35""; ""36""; ""37""; ""38""; ""39""; ""40""; ""41""; ""42""; ""43""; ""44""; ""45""; ""46""; ""47""; ""48""; ""49""; ""50""; ""51""; ""52""; ""53""; ""54""; ""55""; ""56""; ""57""; ""58""; ""59""; ""60""; ""61""; ""62""; ""63""; ""64""

    ""LARRY BROWN�S NOTES FOR THE FINAL CHAPTERS OF A Miracle of Catfish""
  17. Pictures of you
    a novel
    Author: Leavitt, Caroline
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind. Together, they try to solve the mystery of where April was running to, and why. As these three lives intersect, the book asks, How well do we really know those we love?and how do we forgive the unforgivable?

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1616200324; 9781616200329
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Women; Life change events
    Scope: Online-Ressource (335 p)
    Notes:

    Includes reader's guide

    ""Pictures of You""; ""ONE""; ""TWO""; ""THREE""; ""FOUR""; ""FIVE""; ""SIX""; ""SEVEN""; ""EIGHT""; ""NINE""; ""TEN""; ""ELEVEN""; ""TWELVE""; ""THIRTEEN""; ""FOURTEEN""; ""FIFTEEN""; ""SIXTEEN""; ""SEVENTEEN""; ""EIGHTEEN""; ""NINETEEN""; ""TWENTY""; ""TWENTY-ONE""; ""TWENTY-TWO""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Writer as Reviewer""; ""Questions for Discussion""; ""Preview of IS THIS TOMORROW""; ""About the Author""; ""Other Algonquin Readers Round Table Novels""
  18. Lunch at the Piccadilly
    a novel
    Author: Edgerton, Clyde
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    The much-loved author of the bestselling Raney and Walking Across Egypt is back with an endearing novel of calamity and comedy that celebrates the spirit and spunk of old age more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    The much-loved author of the bestselling Raney and Walking Across Egypt is back with an endearing novel of calamity and comedy that celebrates the spirit and spunk of old age

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565127714; 9781565127715
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Aunts; Older women; Nursing home patients; Middle-aged men
    Scope: Online-Ressource (252 p)
    Notes:

    "A Shannon Ravenel book

    ""Contents""; ""Prologue""; ""Part 1. The First Breakfast""; ""Older People in Cars""; ""Through a Glass Eye Darkly""; ""The Kirby""; ""Darla�s Flap and Snap""; ""The First Breakfast""; ""Part 2. Thunder Road""; ""Stand Up and Boogie""; ""Mr. Flowers Needs to Go""; ""O Brother""; ""Shopping for High Heels""; ""Thunder Road""; ""A-1 Hair""; ""Part 3. What about Carl?""; ""Washington and Lee""; ""What about Carl?""; ""Fat from Shame""; ""Lunch at the Piccadilly""; ""The File Box""; ""Part 4. Come to Get My Aunt Out of Jail""; ""Come to Get My Aunt Out of Jail""; ""At the End of the Hall""

    ""Music Is Poetry without Words""""Rank Strangers""; ""Epilogue""
  19. The Sleepy Hollow family almanac
    Author: D'Agostino, Kris
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest. Calvin Moretti can't believe... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    In the spirit of novels by Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta, a smart, funny debut about a disillusioned young man whose fledgling leap from postadolescence to adulthood lands him back in an already overburdened family nest. Calvin Moretti can't believe how much his life sucks. He's a twenty-four-year-old film school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant teacher at a preschool for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother is also living at home, as is his kid sister, who's still in high school and has just confided to Cal that she's pregnant. What's more, Calvin's father, a career pilot, is temporarily grounded and obsessed with his own mortality. and his ever-stalwart mother is now crumbling under the pressure of mounting bills and the imminent loss of their Sleepy Hollow, New York, home: the only thing keeping the Morettis moored. Can things get worse? Oh, yes, they can. Which makes it all the more amazing that The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac is not only buoyantly fun but often very, very funny. In this debut novel, Kris D'Agostino has crafted an engrossing contemporary tale of a loopy but loving family, and in Calvin Moretti, he's created an oddball antihero who really wants to do the right thingif he can just figure out what it is

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1616201460; 9781616201463
    Edition: 1at ed
    Subjects: Maturation (Psychology); Life change events; Young men; Families
    Scope: Online-Ressource (340 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""15""; ""16""; ""17""; ""18""; ""19""; ""20""; ""21""; ""22""; ""23""; ""24""; ""25""; ""26""; ""27""; ""28""; ""29""; ""30""; ""31""; ""32""; ""33""; ""34""; ""35""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac""; ""A Note from the author""; ""Questions for Discussion""; ""About the Author""; ""Algonquin Books Blog""
  20. The good Negress
    Author: Verdelle, A. J.
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to improve herself create conflict with her mother's needs of her as a housekeeper. A first novel

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565128672; 9781565128675
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Domestic fiction; Young women; African American women; African American families
    Scope: Online-Ressource (298 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    ""Cover""; ""THE GOOD NEGRESS""; ""THIS RAIN COMING""; ""ONCE I START TO CLEANIN, IT�S HARD FOR ME TO STOP""; ""WHERE IS TARTED""; ""MY TWO MOTHERS""; ""HAY DREAMS""; ""GIRL BABY""; ""MARGARETE�S HUGS AGAIN""; ""ALL LINED UP AND SMILING""; ""GIBRALTAR JONES""; ""HOG DREAMS""; ""THEM WASHINGTON PIGS""; ""DAYS OF DISBELIEF""; ""THE WINDOW IN MY MOTHER�S HOUSE""; ""SAILING THE BLACK SLATE""; ""BOB""; ""THE LANGUAGE OF MASTERY""; ""APPLIANCES SOLDIERED ALL AROUND""; ""CAKE IN THE OVEN""; ""SO PLAIN A THING""; ""EVERYTHING HAS FALLEN BUT THE COLLARDS""; ""SEALING IN THE MEAT SCRAPS""

    ""YEARS LIKE RIOTS""
  21. Comfort & joy
    a novel
    Author: Grimsley, Jim
    Published: 2003, 1999
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    A romance between two homosexuals who come from a different class. One is a doctor from an old Savannah family, the other's family originates from the backwoods of North Carolina, on top of which he is HIV positive more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    A romance between two homosexuals who come from a different class. One is a doctor from an old Savannah family, the other's family originates from the backwoods of North Carolina, on top of which he is HIV positive

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565127188; 9781565127180
    Subjects: Parents of gays; Christmas stories; Coming out (Sexual orientation); Gay men; HIV-positive men
    Scope: Online-Ressource (291 p)
    Notes:

    Originally published: North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999

    ""Cover""; ""COMFORT & JOY: A Novel""
  22. The Orange Blossom Special
    a novel
    Author: Carter, Betsy
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    Two years after the death of her husband, Tessie Lockhart decides that what she and her daughter need is a change, so they move to Gainsville, Florida, where they discover that they aren't the only ones struggling to move forward more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    Two years after the death of her husband, Tessie Lockhart decides that what she and her daughter need is a change, so they move to Gainsville, Florida, where they discover that they aren't the only ones struggling to move forward

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 156512880X; 9781565128804
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Single mothers; Widows; Psychological fiction; Railroad stations; Loss (Psychology); Mothers and daughters
    Scope: Online-Ressource (296 p)
    Notes:

    Description based upon print version of record

    ""Cover""; ""THE ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL""; ""PART 1: 1958""; ""ONE""; ""TWO""; ""THREE""; ""FOUR""; ""FIVE""; ""SIX""; ""SEVEN""; ""EIGHT""; ""NINE""; ""TEN""; ""TWELVE""; ""PART 2: 1962""; ""THIRTEEN""; ""FOURTEEN""; ""FIFTEEN""; ""SIXTEEN""; ""SEVENTEEN""; ""EIGHTEEN""; ""PART 3: 1966""; ""NINETEEN""; ""TWENTY""; ""PART 4: 1986""; ""TWENTY-ONE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""
  23. Why dogs chase cars
    tales of a beleaguered boyhood
    Author: Singleton, George
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack),... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), all Mendal Dawes wants is out. It's not just his hometown that's hopeless. Mendal's father is just as bad. Embarrassing his son to death nearly every day, Mr. Dawes is a parenting guide's bad example. He buries stuff in the backyardfake toxic barrels, imitation Burma Shave signs (BIRD ON A WIRE, BIRD ON A PERCH, FLY TOWARD HEAVEN, FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH), yardstick collections. He calls Mendal "Fuzznuts" and makes him recite Marx and Durkheim daily and befriend a classmate rumored to have head lice. Mendal Dawes is a boy itching to get out of town, to take the high road and leave the South and his dingbat dad far behindjust like those car-chasing dogs. But bottom line, this funky, sometimes outrageous, and always very human tale is really about how Mendal discovers that neither he nor the dogs actually want to catch a ride, that the hand that has fed them has a lot more to offer. On the way to watching that light dawn, we also get to watch the Dawes's precarious relationship with a place whose "gene pool [is] so shallow that it wouldn't take a Dr. Scholl's insert to keep one's soles dry." To be consistently funny is a great gift. To be funny and cynical and empathetic all at the same time is George Singleton's special gift, put brilliantly into play in this new collection

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565129113; 9781565129115
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Boys; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Fathers and sons
    Scope: Online-Ressource (300 p)
    Notes:

    "A Shannon Ravenel book

    Nearby toxic waste dumpsUnemploymentEmbarrassmentA wheelchair's too slowSegregationAsphalt's better than cinderIn need of better hobbiesNo fear of God or HellMufflersTired of old tricksBlue lawsEven curs hate fruitcakeBetter fire hydrants, shorter trees, more holes to digThe earth rotates this way.
  24. Gap Creek
    a novel
    Author: Morgan, Robert
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1616201789; 9781616201784
    Edition: 1st Algonquin pbk
    Subjects: Young women; Mountain life; Married women
    Scope: Online-Ressource (356 p)
    Notes:

    "The story of a marriage"--Cover

    Includes author's note and questions for discussion (p. [327]-334)

    Includes a preview of the author's The road from Gap Creek (p. [335]-356)

    Originally published in hardcover: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1999

    ""Cover""; ""Praise for Gap Creek""; ""Also by Robert Morgan""; ""Dedication""; ""Epigraph""; ""One""; ""Two""; ""Three""; ""Four""; ""Five""; ""Six""; ""Seven""; ""Eight""; ""Nine""; ""Ten""; ""Eleven""; ""Twelve""; ""Thirteen""; ""Reader's Guide""; ""A Note from the Author""; ""Questions for Discussion""; ""The Road from Gap Creek""; ""A Note from the Author""; ""One""; ""About Robert Morgan""; ""AlgonquinBooksBlog.com""
  25. A perfect arrangement
    a novel
    Author: Berne, Suzanne
    Published: c2001
    Publisher:  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C

    "One damp spring morning, sweet, eager Randi Gill appears on [Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman]'s doorstep, the ideal nanny. Armed with impeccable references from a top child-care placement agancy, fresh from teaching Sunday school, Randi cooks,... more

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    "One damp spring morning, sweet, eager Randi Gill appears on [Mirella and Howard Cook-Goldman]'s doorstep, the ideal nanny. Armed with impeccable references from a top child-care placement agancy, fresh from teaching Sunday school, Randi cooks, bakes, cleans, and does arts and crafts. ... The children fall in love with her, especially silent little Jacob. ... So why do Mirella and Howard each harbor misgivings about the growing attachment between Randi and the children? And why, amid such cozy domestic order, does their marriage suddenly seem to be falling apart?"--Jacket

     
    Export to reference management software   RIS file
      BibTeX file
    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1565126971; 9781565126978
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Psychological fiction; Domestic fiction; Nannies; Dual-career families; Women lawyers
    Scope: Online-Ressource (301 p)
    Notes:

    "A Shannon Ravenel book

    ""Cover""; ""A Perfect Arrangement""; ""PART I""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""PART II""; ""1""; ""2""; ""3""; ""4""; ""5""; ""6""; ""7""; ""8""; ""9""; ""10""; ""11""; ""12""; ""13""; ""14""; ""PART III""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""